Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Nature Quotes, Freedom Quotes

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

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There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

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Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

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What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

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Don't let the man bring you down.

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